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Ep 336: Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas

Ep 336: Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas

Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas

The second largest moon is arguably the strangest. From lakes of liquid natural gas, to its thick atmosphere, to magic islands that come and go, join us for a look at Saturn’s moon Titan.

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Ep 335: Saturn’s rings and things

Ep 335: Saturn’s rings and things

Saturn’s rings and things

You can’t look at Saturn without noticing the rings. So, we take a closer look at Saturn’s rings. The episode ended up a bit longer than usual as the closer you look at them, the more complicated they become.

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Ep 334: Saturn spins me right round baby, right round

Ep 334: Saturn spins me right round baby, right round

Saturn spins me right round baby, right round

We get started with the second largest planet in the solar system with a look at strangely spinning strange things.

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Ep 332: It’s just like the ocean, under the moon

Ep 332: It’s just like the ocean, under the moon

It’s just like the ocean, under the moon

We’ve save the best of Jupiter’s moons for last. Europa, which has a subsurface ocean that could hold twice the water as all of Earth’s oceans combined. What, if any, kind of life might we find there?

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Ep 331: The exploding, electrified moon

Ep 331: The exploding, electrified moon

The exploding, electrified moon

This time we spend time with IO—the most volcanically active body in the solar system; and how it interacts with Jupiter’s magnetic field.

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Ep 328: Jupiter’s magnetic personality

Ep 328: Jupiter’s magnetic personality

Jupiter’s magnetic personality

After geeking out over space hardware, we turn an eye toward Jupiter and talk about the most massive planet’s massive magnetic field.

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Ep 327: The Martian robotic invasion

Ep 327: The Martian robotic invasion

The Martian robotic invasion

As of yet, no humans have made it to Mars. However, many of our spacecraft, landers and rovers have. Join us as we take a little look at a few missions, and a large look at what we’ve learned about our neighbor, the red planet.

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